National School of Drama (NSD) is planning to set up regional centres in the country and Pune is a front-runner in getting one. The reputation of city as a cultural capital of the country is giving it the edge even as the theatre community cannot hide its excitement
A budgetary allocation to set up such [...]
Marathi dramatist, Vijay Tendulkar, who kicked-off a virtual revolution in Indian theatre both in terms of content and style, passed away at a city hospital on Monday at 8am.
Best known for his play Ghasiram Kotwal , a brilliant satire on political violence, and which has had a phenomenal run of 6,000 shows since 1972, [...]
Born on May 19, 1938, in Mathern, Maharastra, Girish Karnad has become one of India’s brightest shining stars, earning international praise as a playwright, poet, actor, director, critic, and translator. [...]
Read More...The 10th Bharat Rang Mahotsav at the National School of Drama introduced a form of theatre never seen earlier, a form of theatre where there was no performance, no stage but an actor living out his life like every normal person, except that in this case he was being watched for 15 days in [...]
Read More... Amongst the 76 productions that are a part of the ongoing jubilee festival at National School of Drama (NSD) was Burqavaganza, a play that was banned in its native Pakistan last March.
The head of Ajoka theatre group to which the play belongs states that the ban came as quite a surprise.
“It’s not surprising as [...]
NSD is Staging A Plethora Of Plays for theatre Lovers -10th Bharat Rang Mahotsav beginning On January 3. The National School of Drama (NSD) is staging a plethora of plays to celebrate its 50th anniversary this January.
A total of 76 productions, including several foreign plays, will be staged during the 17-day festival titled the [...]
The National School of Drama in the Capital plans to unveil a riveting theatre festival in the New Year from January 3 to 20 titled the Tenth Bharat Rang Mahotsav.
The festival to be inaugurated by Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit in the presence of the distinguished theatre personality Ebrahim Alkazi at Kamani Auditorium — will [...]
National School of Drama (NSD), an autonomous organization under the Ministry of Culture, Government of India, is theatre training institution based in New Delhi. The school was established in 1959 as one of the constituent units of Sangeet Natak Akademi. It acquired the independent status in year 1975 when it got registered under the [...]
Read More...Theater in India is as old as the culture of India and quite ideally therefore the deep-rooted relation between Indian tradition and Indian drama has given birth to a number of eminent personalities in Indian theater.Indian theatre has a history going back about 5000 years or more. Infact, the very first book on drama, [...]
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